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Entries Tagged as 'Mexican'

The Road to Salsa Verde

September 7th, 2015 · No Comments · Recipes

My wife is harvesting a bumper crop of tomatillos in her first year of raised bed plantings here at Spy Dog Farm. They look like green tomatoes, and are part of the nightshade family, but Physalis philadelphica is actually related to the gooseberry and comes in a papery husk that looks like a Chinese lantern. […]

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More Carnitas

August 29th, 2014 · No Comments · dinner

I smoked seven pounds of pork shoulder recently, enough for many meals. My wife carefully pulled the meat apart and the bulk of it went into the chest freezer for later. Well, later finally arrived and we sat down to carnitas–tortilla roll ups with all the fixings. Chopped onion, radish, cilantro, tomato and crumbly Mexican […]

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Local Pork Carnitas

June 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Recipes

My sister and her husband were visiting over the weekend so we dove into the chest freezer for a piece of the pork shoulder we bought from our friend Mike to prepare their version of carnitas for dinner. Carnitas, for the uninitiated, are (is?) basically the Mexican version of pulled pork. In this case, the […]

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